Editorial***EMBARGOED UNTIL 9am EST on TUESDAY 21 DEC*** The Beatles seen in rare and newly-discovered photos in Ringo Starrs upcoming memoir, set for 2022 release
EditorialFragment of an embroidered fabric, Piece of white satin, embroidered in vivid colors with silk thread: an Angel wing, flowers and two birds snapping in the direction of a worm. Consists of two pieces sewn together., anonymous, Straat van Taiwan (possib...
EditorialLid for a punch bowl, Lid for a punch bowl with bottom plate. Painted in vivid colors on two sides with on one side a view of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam and on the other a water landscape with sailing ships. The Huis ten Bosch is depicted on...
EditorialThe Crucifixion, ca. 1330?35, Made in Avignon, France, Italian, Tempera on wood, gold ground, Overall: 18 x 11 3/4 in. (45.7 x 29.8 cm), Paintings-Panels, Master of the Codex of Saint George (Italian, active Florence, ca. 1315?35), The deep emotional p...
EditorialSaint Bernardino Preaching from a Pulpit, ca. 1470?75, Tempera on parchment, 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 in. (21 x 14.3cm), Manuscripts and Illuminations, Francesco di Giorgio Martini (Italian, Siena 1439?1501 Siena), Essentially a small painting on parchment, this ...
EditorialSurcoat (Jinbaori), Edo period (1615?1868), 17th century, Japan, Body: China, for the European market, late 16th?17th century; silk velvet, cut and voided, 36 5/8 x 27 1/8 in. (93.0 x 68.9 cm), Costumes, Samurai jinbaori were frequently made from expen...
EditorialTHE ELEMENTS BY C. STANFIELD, R.A., 1793-1867, ENGLISH MARINE PAINTER; A MAGNIFICENT CITY HAS ITS SUPERB TEMPLES CONSUMED BY FIRE AND OVERTOPPLED BY EARTHQUAKE; THE BLACK STORM RAGES IN FEARFUL CONTRAST WITH THE VIVID CONFLAGRATION, AND THE DESPAIRING ...
EditorialRedheaded Girl in Evening Dress (Jeune fille rousse en robe de soir), Amedeo Modigliani, 1918, Oil on canvas, Though the woman in this portrait is unidentified, with her vivid hair and strapless dress, she is no less memorable. She drapes her shoulder ...
EditorialPaul C?zanne: Portrait of a Woman (Portrait de femme), Paul C?zanne, c. 1898, Oil on canvas, C?zanne painted many portraits of working-class people in Provence, his native region in the south of France. Here he depicts a solemn older woman clutching a ...
EditorialHip Ornament: Face, 16th?17th century, Nigeria, Court of Benin, Edo peoples, Brass, H. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm), Metal-Ornaments, Benin history, religion, and political structure are brought to life every year in a series of palace rituals intended to purif...